What’s Up: #40: Tristan Galdos Del Carpio
It’s taken me a while to track down the name of illustrator Tristan Galdos Del Carpio [via philippearnaud.com]. His portraits of various fashion aficionados commissioned by Self Service magazine [selfservicemagazine.com] ‘back in the day’ have been etched into my memory. It wasn’t until acquiring Ezra Petronio and Suzanne Koller’s [petronioassociates.com] recent tome (I say ‘tome’ not cause of weight but because of the hefty price tag) [jrp-ringier.com], that I could finally look it up (I think my old issues of Self Service are still in my Mum’s garage in Australia). His recent work does not disappoint either. There’s a nervous energy in his linework that makes anything pop… even dower old fashion bods.
What’s Up #39: Peter Crnokrak
Peter Crnokrak is deep into graphic design. It wasn’t always the case though. A brief snippet from his bio tells the story, “…studied medicine, completed a doctorate in evolutionary genetics, moved to Toronto to start a postdoctoral fellowship but become crushingly bored with life, decided to leave the sciences for design…”. Yep, Graphic Design has a proper scientist in it’s midst. Under his current moniker, ‘The Luxury of Protest’ [theluxuryofprotest.com] Peter has been producing precisely-detailed limited edition posters for you to purchase via Design Supremo [designsupremo.com], a sample of which you can see above.
What’s Up #38: Mehmet Ulusahin
Mehmet Ulusahin [mehmetulusahin.com] isn’t waiting around for commissions, he’s been setting his own briefs and producing unique publications filled with his lush, hand-drawn illustrations, which he then exhibits at various zine and self-publishing fairs such as London’s excellent Publish and Be Damned [publishandbedamned.org] (photos of which, we’ll be posting on Flickr real soon) and the Zigzag ‘Independent Drawing Gig’ in Istanbul [idgnr4.blogspot.com].
What’s Up #37: Charlotte Mann
Charlotte Mann [charlottemann.co.uk] has just completed her latest massive wallscape of a commission for the intriguingly esoteric (and recently launched) shopping experience, The School of Life [theschooloflife.com]. There’s no sneaky digital reproduction going on here. Charlotte uses marker pens to draw straight said walls, which makes the resulting pieces all the more impressive. You can see her mural for the School in their ‘classroom’, appropriately enough.
What’s Up #36: Axel Peemöller
Axel Peemöller is an Australian ‘Master of Design’. It’s official. The qualification was only introduced in Australia a mere 7 years ago and he’s got one. Cool. Currently living in Hamburg Germany (I wonder if the MDe means anything to a European audience), qualifications aside, the quality of his work speaks for itself and is exemplified by his slick foliosite [de-war.de]. Though, it’s the Eureka car park in Melbourne that has been garnering him the most interest [de-war.de/eurekacarpark].
What’s Up #35: Jarrik Muller
Typography is my aeroplane. I think it may be Jarrik Muller’s too [getbusyfoklazy.web-log.nl], in which case he ain’t never coming down cause this stuff is delirious fun. The image below is from a submission for Rojo [rojo-magazine.com] magazine. His foliosite is divided in two to separate out personal projects and study projects. Not so lazy then, really.
What’s Up #34: Ludovic Balland
Ludovic Balland’s foliosite [ludovic-balland.ch] is almost, completely monochrome which highlights how bold his studio’s typographic vision is. To achieve this they’re not only manipulating existing typefaces in new and exciting ways but also creating new typefaces from old (or from scratch). If you are looking for a sample of his studio’s more exciting work, seek out the compendium they produced for the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art [bb5.berlinbiennial.de] entitled ‘When Things Cast No Shadow’ [jrp-ringier.com], where a crazy cast of typefaces that should be jostling for attention are roped into order with surprising results.
As a sidenote jrp | ringer are also the publishing house behind Ezra Petronio and Suzanne Koller’s forthcoming (and rather expensive) monograph [jrp-ringier.com]. You may know them better as Work In Progress [petronioassociatesblog.com].
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What’s Up #33: Claire McManus
Claire McManus [ampersand8.co.uk] is super busy. Currently installed as part of the talented team at the AA (Architectural Association) Print Studio [aaschool.ac.uk], working with Mr Zak Kyes [www.zak.to] and Mr Wayne Daly [waynedaly.com], she’s been producing all manner of sparkling typographic treatments for various AA events and activities (including their end of year show, the AA Projects Review [aaschool.ac.uk/publications]). She’s also pointed Boicozine in the direction of a couple of bits and bytes that may be of interest to you, dear reader, such as this rad ‘documents folder’ [25togo.com] and, more importantly, in case (like me) you didn’t realise it was under threat, a petition to save the Type Museum from closure [petitions.pm.gov.uk/typemuseum].
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What’s Up #32: CatalogTree
CatalogTree [catalogtree.net] are graphic designers forging a specialisation in information graphics, and in doing so, blurring the line between traditional graphic design and illustration. It’s Graphic Illustration… er, no it’s Information Design… whatever, it sure is cool to look at… and teaches you about stuff at the same time! Go CatalogTree! For a closer look, there’s some pretty sizeable graphics over at Good magazine [goodmagazine.com] and more stuff over at Seed magazine [revminds.seedmagazine.com] (that’s the American, worthy, four-letter magazine title market sewn up then).
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What’s Up #31: Fanette Mellier
Fanette Mellier [fanettemellier.com] has just completed her residency in Chaumont as part of the annual Festival International de l’Affiche et du Graphisme de Chaumont 2008 (they could think of a snappier title huh). She has also been putting the finishing touches on an ace new identity for the Parc Saint Leger Contemporary Art Centre [parcsaintleger.fr]. It’s modular and multi-faceted, comes in a variety of colours or in basic black and has a rather nifty set of punctuation that ties in with the geometric shapes that make up the custom display typeface which you can see above. Further proof that France is kicking serious graphic butt with this latest generation of creative types.
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